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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1912
Page
11
Lewiston Maine April 30 detectives and city police chase clues in the murder of John Bibber and the assaults on Mrs Wallace H White Jr and Miss Mary AuCoin with no arrests expected today. Some investigators doubt a connection among the three crimes while others consider a common suspect.
Eben D. Jordan estate trustees Eben D. Jordan Charles H. Taylor and Richard M. Saltonstall bought the six story brick and stone mercantile building at 556 560 Atlantic avenue with 11942 feet of land. They purchased from Edward N. Fenno and the Fenno estate, who had sold to Fred Holdsworth and Robert D. Farrington, then to the Jordan trustees.
Actor Henry Woodruff showing improvement after several days of illness at a hotel in French Lick Indiana. The physician says he has suffered a nervous breakdown and should be able to leave bed within a few days.
Several local witnesses are ready to take the stand before the Governor's Council and declare that Clarence V. T. Richeson showed symptoms they attribute to insanity. They say Richeson had spells bordering on frenzy at his Cambridge boarding house on Clinton Street and later at the Magazine Street home of Frank H. Carter.
The article outlines witnesses and figures tied to Richeson including Edwin S. Watson and Frank H. Carter in Cambridge. It notes potential testimony from Sheriff Quinn and Druggist Hahn about cyanide purchases, pending governor referred council review, and a May hearing date with Attorney John L. Lee returning from Missouri.
Providence April 30 Apprentice Seaman Ellsworth Hunt of the Newport naval training station and Private William Frye of the Ninety seventh Company Coast Artillery Corps Fort Adams pleaded not guilty to improper use of the mails. They waived examination and were bound over for the federal grand jury. Hunt was arrested on a complaint from a Fall River recipient of a letter and a similar complaint from a Pennsylvania town led to Frye’s arrest.
Beginning today a through service enables riders to travel from Park Street subway to Newton Highlands without changing cars. The line from Newton Highlands to Lake Street will extend to Park Street via Beacon Street and Coolidge’s Corner with departures from Park Street at 6:15, 6:46, 7:15, 7:45 a.m. and at intervals of about 15 and 30 minutes until 11:30 p.m. Sundays start at 7:15 a.m. with similar weekday frequency until the last car.
A newlywed couple, Mrs Lowden aged 8 and her husband a Civil War veteran aged 20, married in Canada last week, spent a week on a Vermont honeymoon stopping in Bennington and taking carriage trips through the mountains.
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